Am entering my 3rd season now as a novice BK with 2 hives. Coming up to harvest last year one hive suffered deformed wing and was decreasing in numbers. I managed to resurrect from the strong hive and had a good harvest. The strong hive started to loose numbers and things just started to get worse from there. One mistake was I only treated the sick hive which was soon after normal spring treatment. Of late both hives were low on numbers. Recently I noticed increased activity around my wrapped up stored suppers. Was trying to establish if this was my bees or not and observing the hives today there was much activity. More than I would have thought seeing as both were declining hives. I have a hive buster on one of my hives with the trap underneath when I checked this it was full of dead bees. That was all I need to know. I shut down both hives and checked again at dusk. Both hives are empty. A very sobering and sad end to my apiary.